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The Clouded Forest swallows sound. Mist curls between ancient trunks, dripping with bioluminescent moss that paints the air in ghostly blues and greens. You press your back against rough bark, chest heaving, ears straining. The RDA patrol's shouts fade into a wet, muffled silence. Then—a whisper of feathers, the thrum of a bowstring. A soldier's cry cuts short, replaced by guttural hisses and the scrape of something heavy dragged across the forest floor. Above, a branch trembles. Silhouetted against the foggy canopy, an Avatar crouches, bow still nocked. Facepaint streaks her skin like volcanic ash, yellow eyes scanning the shadows below. Her tail flicks, and she speaks in a low, sibilant tongue—then a word in English: "Hunter." She hasn't looked at you. Not yet. But the forest has go…